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        <p>Starting from lesson two, we'll start learning the
        syllabaries. Until we've mastered them, we'll use both Roman letters and the
        syllabaries to represent the Japanese words we encounter. However, by lesson
        18, we'll begin using the syllabaries exclusively. Although
        this may seem overwhelming right now, they are really easy to learn and
        understand. (Japanese also uses a third character set, called <i>Kanji</i>, which was borrowed from Chinese.
        We'll discuss <i>Kanji</i> a bit more in the next lesson.)</p>

        <p>But now, let's look at pronunciation in Japanese. We'll
        start with the vowels. The list is short and sweet. When written in Roman
        letters, the vowels are pronounced as follows. Touch each letter to hear it pronounced. </p>

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		<td class="vocab-english" bgcolor="#ffffff">As in <span class="pronunciation_emphasis">"father."</span> Never as in "apple" or "cape."</td>
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		<td class="vocab-english" bgcolor="#ffffff">As in <span class="pronunciation_emphasis">"machine."</span> Never as in "pit."</td>
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		<td class="vocab-english" bgcolor="#ffffff">As in <span class="pronunciation_emphasis">"Jupiter."</span> Never as in "jump."</td>
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		<td class="vocab-english" bgcolor="#ffffff">As in <span class="pronunciation_emphasis">"pen."</span> Never as in "peek."</td>
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		<td class="vocab-english" bgcolor="#ffffff">As in <span class="pronunciation_emphasis">"hope."</span> Never as in "on."</td>
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        <p>There you have it. These vowel sounds are always pronounced
        as I have indicated. The "never" notes are just friendly reminders because as
        English-speakers, we often tend to allow letters that <i>follow</i> a vowel 
        to influence the pronunciation of that vowel. For
        example, take the car company Honda. Americans always mispronounce the name
        because they change the <i>o</i> sound when
        they see the <i>n</i> after it. In Japanese,
        it is pronounced "hone-dah," because in Japanese, <i>o</i> 
        is always pronounced "oh," regardless of what follows.</p>

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